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Upgrading again

I’ve upgraded both Wordpress itself and K2 (my theme) again.  I’ve also tweaked the default K2 style a little.  Apologies if this breaks things (I can’t test this on IE6 for a day or two), but we should be good soon.

Oh no!

Bryan Palmer writes:

Now that the election is over, I will be taking a blog holiday for some months.

Months?  Months?!  C’mon, man; don’t be that guy …

Justifying my continued existance

… as a blogger [*], that is.

Via Alex Tabarrok (with two r’s), I note that the National Library of Medicine (part of the NIH) is now providing guidelines on how to cite a blog.

There are the ongoing calls for more academic bloggers and, while there are certainly questions over incentives and the impact on research productivity, academia continues to dip the odd toe in the water. Justin Wolfers just did a week of it at Marginal Revolution and now I see this brief post by Joshua Gans:

As more evidence that blogging is going mainstream, a bunch of faculty at Harvard Business School are now in on the act (including economist Pankaj Ghemawat)

[*] I didn’t think it was possible for me to dislike any word more than I do “blog,” but it turns out that I do. To call myself “blogger” required a supression of my own gag reflex.

A research page

Well, for better or for worse, I’ve just created a page for “My Research.” I’m not sure whether I ought to be putting it here at barrdear.com or on a personal page at LSE. Do any academics in the audience have an opinion?

Upgrading wordpress + theme

Apologies for the mess … I’ve upgraded to v2.2.2 of WordPress and moved over to K2 for my theme. If anyone has a recommendation for a K2 style I might use, let me know.

You should notice a few largely-pointless-but-still-pretty-cool AJAX features appearing over the next few days and weeks.

My entry into the world of blogs and web 2.0

In a recent outing to the pub, a couple of friends noted that we were three computer professionals without any real web presense. We might have attempted the odd static site over the years, but none of us had really embraced the whole web 2.0 thing. Realising that this is an embarrassing state of affairs, wanting some sort of common place to store my (public) thoughts and since economists all seem to blog these days anyway, I figured to give it a shot.

Hopefully it won’t turn into another empty, never-updated affair. :)
I’ve also created accounts on Facebook and Myspace, although both accounts are really just stubs at this point. I notice that facebook allows me to publish this blog directly into my facebook account (in the notes area), which is nice. Myspace seems to only allows me to publish (subscribe) to other blogs on myspace.

Are there any other networking sites I ought to be signing on to?